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A diamond shaped doodle, hand painted with watercolor paints and repeated.

♥ Today is our wedding anniversary, my wonderful husband bought me tulips! ♥

I think I'm going through a poppy phase. These are a different variety than I've photographed before, I found them growing in the back of my garden - so pretty!

I made a painted & textured pattern of watercolor elements in a deep, cherry red, cream, teal & navy blue, then added further elements in orange.

I love proteas, they are such wonderfully sculptural flowers. Plus, they're South African. So maybe I'm biased ...

A geometric, floral inspired, detailed abstract design in shades of soft purple blue, indigo, white, light grey & navy, with linen texture.

Little watercolor lion cubs, leaves, dragonflies and coral red poppies.

An over-the-top colorful, vivid bouquet of leaves and flowers hand-drawn in shades of blue, green, orange, pink, aqua, turquoise, teal and purple.

Another iridescense inspired abstract painting in rainbow colors.

Just a little drawing fun. : )

My Mom gave me a bunch of jonquils from her beautiful garden and of course I immediately wanted to make a pattern from them. Well. It was really hard. I started over numerous times and worked and worked and put it aside and worked on something else and came back and started over AGAIN and oh dear... This will have to do.

A pattern inspired by beautiful art nouveau enamel patterns, wallpaper, illustrations and tiles.

A diamond shaped doodle, hand painted with watercolor paints and repeated.

A music loving, iPod listening iCat who also happens to love ikat patterns ... : ) Had some fun making ikat patterns with a ballpoint pen, I think I see a new addiction coming.

Bright yellow and blue grey watercolor wagtail birds perched among colorful coral red/orange tulips on a deep indigo textured background.

I'm really enjoying working with art deco shapes and themes, this is one of three colorways.

A collage of precious stone, quartz and marble in beautiful ocean shades of blue, amethyst purple and green.

Black and white ... obviously not myself today. : ) I love color so much, doing a pattern without color doesn't come easily to me, but sometimes I think it is good to work outside of my comfort zone.

This took me a whole day, using a 0.1mm black ink pen, and made my fingers bruised and my hand ache, but I really enjoyed it anyway. : )

Lately I've been drawn to Art Deco & Art Nouveau shapes and patterns, I'm enjoying exploring their possibilities. This is a second color version of my Glamorous Twenties Art Deco Pastel Pattern.

A special request. ( :

A collage of hand painted watercolor elements in deep navy blue, red and green.

Drawn by hand, coloured in photoshop. Just what I always wanted when I was little... a cosy and magical treehouse tucked into a cosy and magical tree ( :

The multi-colored version of my floral pattern.

A cute, ditsy, pattern in rainbow shades with all the sweet art supplies one could need to survive lockdown with positive creative energy.

Bright, beautiful golden sunflowers - they make me happy!

A painted pattern inspired by pretty pink ranunculus flowers and leaves.

Hugs and Cupcakes For You

This pattern took me ages, long enough to make me wonder what I was thinking even starting on such an ambitious (for me) project. But my garden is full of proteas, and they are so lovely, I find their shapes and colors endlessly inspiring, so it had to be done. I couldn't ignore them anymore. : )

For the love of color. A hand drawn mandala pattern, colored with watercolor paints.

When I was little I'd spend hours looking at marbles and marvelling at their beautiful intricacies and stunning designs. Their shape, their weight, their endless colours and differences, their shininess and the pleasure of ownership that is the essence of the game of marbles... as an adult I find them no less appealing. ( : Camera Model Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL

Bold linework curls and and waves in bright golden yellow, with shadows and linen texture in rich deep shades of turquoise, teal, green and blue.

_Eccentric:_ quirky, curious, funky, cooky, droll, uncommon, quaint, peculiar, off the wall, odd, weird, whimsical, wild, unusual. Yeah, baby. _WHAT IT'S NOT:_ boring, common, dull, normal, ordinary, plain, regular, standard, unexciting. Boy, am I eccentric. Lol.

Hope you like it!

Over-sized deep green textured leaves with linework doodles and decorations and salmon pink, white & crimson hibiscus flowers.

A bright, colorful oil painting of flowers and leaves on deep navy blue and dark teal.